Point Lowly camping fee planned for summer

Whyalla Council hopes a proposed camping fee at Point Lowly will end overcrowding of the popular recreation site.

At times, more than 100 people are keen to use 45 campsites and the council says some overstay a 14-day limit.

Council CEO Peter Peppin says a $5 per day camping fee might be a way to solve the problem.

"We're seeing this as just a regulation process that we're going to put in place for the forthcoming summer," he said.

"But going forward we'd like to come up with a masterplan, irrespective of what takes place industrially at Port Bonython and Point Lowly we would want to put in place a masterplan for recreational use in and around that area anyway."